everybody knows keeping them honest where we hold lawmakers and the elected officials accountable. republicans and democrats. michele bachmann is maybe a special case for them because a couple years ago she said things that are, you know, questionable before, but particularly on their show she said that the president spends $200 million a day for example to go to india which turned out not to be true. she said that to anderson. when it came to this, anderson's people saw it. they asked me to request an interview. i did and was told no so i went to the regular house republican meeting where we asked all kinds of lawmakers all kinds of questions and i found her and tried to ask her. >> any followup today, any reaction from her or her staff? >> no. and i tried to get, you know, context so i could be accurate and get more information from her people and they just said the congresswoman's statements speak for themselves. thanks. >> she always does good work. >>> just ahead --. >> earth to chairman ryan. come in, chairman ryan. come back to earth. >> the house budget committee chairman p